Well after all the hype over the Pentium 4 review, we felt that we wouldstoke the fire a bit more with a couple new benchmarks and the much talkedabout price verses performance comparison. This will be quick andhopefully painless. Those of you that are a bit sensitive about theAthlon though may want to prepare yourselves a bit. In this extension, wetake a look at Unreal Tournament and MP3 encoding.

Speaking of Dominions(screenshots),Illwinter has released version 1.03of their turn-based strategy game. Changes include a bugfix for extremely largearmies and an Air Elemental fix; the full changelog can be foundhere.

Tux Games is now stocking Dominions andConquest ofElysium II from Illwinter.As an extra note, we have now started to accept payments by Paypal,which will allow people without credit cards who cannot find theirgames locally to buy them online through our site.

John Hall, author of Programming Linux Games,let us know that if you pre-order the book from the publisher,NoStarch Press, you will receive a25% discount, bringing the cost (minus shipping and handling) down to $29.96 US.

The Myth 2 1.3e installer, like the previously-released Heretic 2 1.06binstaller, will install from the retail Myth 2 for Linux CD andautomatically patch up to the current patch level in the process. Thisinstaller has been released for the x86 and PPC platforms.

Epic’s Tim Sweeney recently presented his views on Linux and gaming, especially with respect to the recent Microsoft ruling, in VoodooExtreme’s aptly named, recurring interview feature, “Ask Sweeney”. Here is the question and the very beginning of Tim’s answer:

From: Ted C — From a personal and profession view point how do you see the future of Linux gaming now that it seems Microsoft will not be broken up.

Tim’s reply: Hopefully Linux gaming will take off as soon as Linux becomes a mainstream consumer operating system.